> > On abortions from Hypocrisy Watch: Hypocrisy Watch: RNC Insurance Plan Has Covered Abortions for 18 Years http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/143936/hypocrisy_watch:_rnc_insurance_plan_has_covered_abortions_for_18_years/#more
<http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/143936/hypocrisy_watch:_rnc_insurance_plan_has_covered_abortions_for_18_years/#more>venantius j pinto > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:54:41 -0800 (PST) > From: Mario Goveia <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Goanet] How Catholic Bishops Threw the Health Care Debate > into Turmoil with Anti-Abortion Maneuver > > > Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:04:30 -0500 > From: Venantius J Pinto <[email protected]> > > This piece will give people a sense of high intrigue and manipulation, and > its not just the Catholic Bishops, but other horrendous parties in play > here. And so it goes, with the power they have to dictate and alter peoples > lives. Worth reading readers comments on the site at the bottom of the > article. Nothing is easy, we all know that. > > Mario observes: > > (del) > > >*From the exasperated tone of your comments and the adjectives you have > used above, it looks like you support the notion that elective abortions > should be supported and paid for by all Americans*. > > In the US the government has been prohibited from using federal funds to > pay for abortions since the Hyde Amendment was passed in 1976. > > Why don't liberals who support abortion on demand form private fundraising > organizations that would pay for abortions privately rather than muck up > public policy and programs that include millions of Americans who oppose > abortion? > > Furthermore, on the larger issue of "altering people's lives" on what > objective evidence are you concluding that THIS government run health care > plan will work efficiently and within projected budgets when every > government run social program in US history, with the lone exception of the > prescription drug program passed by the previous administration, has > exceeded its original projections several fold and are all running out of > money when they were originally supposed to be self financing?? Not to > mention the financial and operating messes in the government run health care > programs in Canada and Britain, which are decades old, and are getting > worse, not better. > >
